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Dynamic Imputation of Agent Cognition

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Agents and Computational Autonomy (AUTONOMY 2003)

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People can interact much more readily with a multi-agent system if they can understand it in cognitive terms. Modern work on “BDI agents” emphasizes explicit representation of cognitive attributes in the design and construction of a single agent, but transferring these concepts to a community is not straightforward. In addition, there are single-agent cases in which this approach cannot yield the desired perspicuity, including fine-grained agents without explicit internal representation of cognitive attributes, and agents whose inner structures are not accessible. We draw together two vintage lines of agent be imputed externally to a system irrespective of its internal structure, and the in-sight from situated automata that dynamical systems offer a well-defined semantics for cognition. We demonstrate this approach in both single agent and multi agent examples.

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  1. Altarum Institute, 3520 Green Ct. Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA

    H. Van Dyke Parunak & Sven A. Brueckner

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  1. University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK

    Matthias Nickles

  2. School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9LE, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Michael Rovatsos

  3. Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Gerhard Weiss

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Van Dyke Parunak, H., Brueckner, S.A. (2004). Dynamic Imputation of Agent Cognition. In: Nickles, M., Rovatsos, M., Weiss, G. (eds) Agents and Computational Autonomy. AUTONOMY 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2969. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_17

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